- Gil Favor: When things are goin' right on a drive, a trail hand will call everything from a calf to a ten-year old bull, a cow. When they're not goin' right, which is most of the time, he'll call cattle lots of other names, very few of them are complimentary. I know 'em all. I'm Gil Favor, trail boss.
- Harry Tasunka: Paneequa, not Plains Indian.
- Gil Favor: They must come down from the hills sometime.
- Harry Tasunka: No.
- Gil Favor: Well, you did.
- Harry Tasunka: It died because the Paneequa wanted it to die.
- Gil Favor: Oh, what'd they do? Cast a spell on it?
- Harry Tasunka: They denied the people of Heliotrope access to water, abundant enough for a hundred towns like this, and a hundred tribes like the Paneequa.
- Harry Tasunka: To the Paneequa, I am white. Which means enemy. Which means unclean.
- Gil Favor: I don't know much about tribal customs.
- Harry Tasunka: Paneequa not ordinary Indian. They're the guardian of the valley, the valley of the Panwwqua where the spirit of the dead sing always. Where they dance 50 feet above the ground and the touch is hot and deadly.
- Wishbone: [as they survey the hot pools and geysers] Well, hang me out for a horse thief, if I ever seen anything like that in the mountains.
- Wishbone: Ain't much to do except talk or freeze to death. So I guess I'll talk.
- Pete Nolan: I'd rather freeze.
- Wishbone: Being up in the mountains reminds me of the time I was a mountain man, and, boy, there were some men, great ones, John Gant, Black Harris, Old Bill Williams. He used to be a preacher.
- Flagg: Now I know what you should have been instead of a cook.
- Garrison: Captain Loomis was a medical student.
- Gil Favor: Well, Loomis?
- Capt. Loomis: You want me to save his life so that he can grow up and kill more white men?
- Gil Favor: You're gonna have to do it, Wishbone.
- Wishbone: Well, I done a little doctoring, but I'm no surgeon.
- Indian Girl: The boy ran away during the night. He wanted to see what white men looked like.
- Gil Favor: We're sorry it cost him his life.
- Capt. Loomis: The Government wanted no bloodshed.
- Meeker: Someone should have informed the Paneequa of that sentiment.